Rensselaer Team Shows How To Analyze Raw Government Data

A How-To Primer on “Mashing-Up” the Treasure Trove of Government Web Data Who is the White House’s most frequent visitor? Which White House staffer has the most visitors? How do smoking quit rates, state by state, relate to unemployment, taxes, and violent crimes? How do politics influence U.S. Supreme Court decisions? How many earthquakes occurred worldwide recently? Where and how strong were they? Which states have the cleanest air and water?

Rensselaer Creates New Center for Data Science Research

Researchers throughout Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are coming together to develop a new interdisciplinary Data Science Research Center. The center will bring together top researchers from every school within Rensselaer as well as collaborators at other universities and corporations to develop new and better ways to store, protect, share, and gain knowledge from scientific data.

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